. The Street railway journal . e room, but as the object of thisarticle is only to describe the manufacture of veneer, we will leave thesubject with one or two casual remarks. A person standing by the veneer machine with a perfect log abouttwenty to twenty-six inches in diameter, and seeing the veneer rolloff, is led to exclaim, what a mine of wealth there must be in cuttingveneer. But reverse the thing, and get a poor log in the machine,and see armful after armful go into the fire room. The exclamationwill be of a very different character. Many apparently good logs arefound to be nearly worth
. The Street railway journal . e room, but as the object of thisarticle is only to describe the manufacture of veneer, we will leave thesubject with one or two casual remarks. A person standing by the veneer machine with a perfect log abouttwenty to twenty-six inches in diameter, and seeing the veneer rolloff, is led to exclaim, what a mine of wealth there must be in cuttingveneer. But reverse the thing, and get a poor log in the machine,and see armful after armful go into the fire room. The exclamationwill be of a very different character. Many apparently good logs arefound to be nearly worthless when cut in veneer. The logs princi-pally used are birch, although some elm and bass are used in the work. More might be said on the subject, but the principal points havebeen described and it only remains to give a short sketch ofW. P. Seguine, general manager of the railroad department ofthe Frost Veneer Seating Company, whose portrait appears on thispage. Mr. Seguine was one of the earliest pioneers in perforated seats. FIG. VENEER SEATING FACTORY—NEWPORT, VT. and veneers. While in the service of the late firm of Gardner & Com-pany, he put into use the first veneer seating ever used by a publicconveyance. This was in the old steamer Shady Side, a trifle overtwenty years ago. In this test veneer gained public favor and alsobegan for Mr. Seguine a record as a railroad supply man. At the
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